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Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft Scientists Use Game to Generate Database for Analysis of Drawing

July 22, 2013

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The fingers of thousands of people who created sketches of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on their iPhones can collectively guide and correct the drawing strokes of subsequent touchscreen users in an application created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research.
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